README.md

🎰 Markdown Playgrounds for Swift

What it does

This app reads and writes Markdown documents that contain Swift code. The code can be executed too! You can run individual code blocks, or all the blocks in a file.

We're using this app to update our book Advanced Swift, and while writing blog posts. We find it very useful, and we hope you do too.

How it works

The app works by sending Swift code to a REPL instance, then reading back the results. Compared to Swift Playgrounds or Xcode's playgrounds, this is quite limiting, but it also means we can keep things simple.

Future Direction

This project could head in a number of directions, and there are many useful features we could add. Our main goal is to keep using this for authoring Swift-heavy Markdown, which will guide our decisions when we decide on new features.